Yesterday, Google announced that it would shut down its Allo messaging service to focus more on Messages. Pour one out for ol' ICS - it earned it. Sam Spencer, Technical Program Manager, Google Play, said, "The Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) platform is seven years old and the active device count has been below 1% for some time". This led to the fact that starting today, owners of smartphones and tablets based on it can't even run the Google Play store, downloading from there any applications and games, including old ones that have not been updated for more than five years.

Out of all the monthly active Android users, about 2 billion+, majority presently run on Android 7.0 Nougat, with many others also using Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Android 8.0 Oreo. The Android Ice Cream Sandwich marked an evolution of Google's design language. Henceforth, Google is withdrawing its support to these devices.

It is going to improve the Android Auto features, which is going to expand and upgrade the compatibility for Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 devices, as well as making overall improvements to Pixel 3 audio performance for some vehicles.